spring maker
Spring makers operate a variety of equipment and machinery designed to manufacture different types of spring, including leaf, coil, torsion, clock, tension, and extension spring.
Also called: spring setting operator, spring making machine tender, wire coiler spring maker setter, coiler, extension spring maker, compression spring maker, tension spring maker, spring making machine setter
- 16
- essential skills
- 25
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 8121
- ISCO-08 group
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Essential skills
16- coil metal
- ensure equipment availability
- monitor automated machines
- monitor moving workpiece in a machine
- operate precision measuring equipment
- perform test run
- quality standards
- remove inadequate workpieces
- remove processed workpiece
- safely handle metal wire under tension
- supply machine
- supply machine with appropriate tools
- tend spring making machine
- troubleshoot
- types of metal
- types of spring
Optional skills
25- advise on machinery malfunctions
- cold winding
- consult technical resources
- dispose of hazardous waste
- ensure necessary ventilation in machining
- ferrous metal processing
- hot winding
- keep records of work progress
- manufacture of small metal parts
- manufacturing of daily use goods
- metal forming technologies
- monitor gauge
- perform machine maintenance
- perform product testing
- program a CNC controller
- quality and cycle time optimisation
- read standard blueprints
- record production data for quality control
- remove scale from metal workpiece
- set up the controller of a machine
- statistical process control
- tend wire drawing machine
- types of metal manufacturing processes
- use CAM software
- wear appropriate protective gear
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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